Boxstarter asking for my Windows password in a shady PowerShell prompt

I just installed Node 10 this weekend and the chockolatey boxstarter started to bother me with Please provide your password so that Boxstarter may automatically log you on. every time I log in.

There is no standard way to uninstall the tool (via Windows Settings or Control Panel), only complicated steps described on https://chocolatey.org/docs/uninstallation

While other malware can show a powershell prompt saying “I am Boxstarter, pleaze gief me your password:”, I will assume the message comes from the legit installer because of a valid certificate and no antivirus complaints (yet)…

Could the Node installer please behave better? I.e. not ask me for password days after installation, via a shady prompt in powershell that it asked to be elevated to admin privileges, after an attempt to disable UAC?!?

[gep13]

Forcibly closing the Boxstarter process once it has started has the potential to leave your computer in an unknown state, and as a result, you may see symptoms like you are currently seeing. Things to check would be to do the following:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/23838#issuecomment-432812092

Then, you may also find that UAC has been disabled on your machine. If this was something you had on before, you may want to re-enable it.

in terms of whether you want to re-install or not, that really depends on what you are doing. The Boxstarter/Chocolatey installation of the tools is something optional, if you require those capabilities. The applications that are attempting to be installed are listed here:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/tools/msvs/install_tools/install_tools.txt

You may want to ensure that these tools completed their installation, and if not, run them again. I don’t think it will be necessary to uninstall and re-install node itself.

[Aprillion]

thank you for the help.

nodejs/node#23838 seems like the best place for further discussions if needed, closing this one.